T&L News(121)

Birmingham's Laptop Program Moves Forward The Birmingham City Council has approved $3.5 million in funding for the purchase of laptop computers from the One Child Per Laptop Foundation for use in the city's schools.

School Creates Its Own Televised Test Prep As the Maryland School Assessment test draws closer, students at William Wirt Middle School are tuning in to a TV show designed to prepare them for the test.

Math Panel Releases Report The National Mathematics Advisory Panel has delivered its Final Report, concluding that the delivery system in mathematics education is broken and must be fixed.

Waking Up the Brain Some British school children are spending 20 minutes each morning playing games on portable videogame machines in an effort to stimulate brain development.

Computer Science Degrees Rebounding New research indicates that interest in a degree in computer science at the college level is going up, reversing a nearly decade long decline.